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[deduction] Satoshi was not american, therefore not Zooko #10

Open kenorb opened 4 years ago

kenorb commented 4 years ago

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn can't be Satoshi, as he's american.

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Occasional British English spelling and terminology (such as the phrase "bloody hard") in both source code comments and forum postings led to speculation that Nakamoto, or at least one individual in the consortium claiming to be him, was of Commonwealth origin.

Moreover, the first bitcoin block that could only be mined by Satoshi contains the encoded text The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks which implies that he was reading London's The Times newspaper at the time of the inception of bitcoin.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Characteristics_and_identity

Mr. Davis started following Mr. Nakamoto’s trail of online writing, and noticed that, after an initial post announcing Bitcoin that used American spelling, the programmer used the British spelling, referred to London newspapers and at one point using the phrase “bloody hard”–suggesting he had lived or studied in the U.K. or Ireland.

Source: The New Yorker’s Joshua Davis Attempts to Identify Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

A Swiss coder and active community member, graphed the time stamps for each of Nakamoto's 500-plus bitcoin forum posts; the resulting chart showed a steep decline to almost no posts between the hours of 5 am and 11 am Greenwich Mean Time. Because this pattern held true even on Saturdays and Sundays, it suggested that the lull was occurring when Nakamoto was asleep, rather than at work. (The hours of 5 am to 11 am GMT are midnight to 6 am Eastern Standard Time.) Other clues suggested that Nakamoto was British: A newspaper headline he had encoded in the genesis block came from the UK-published Times of London, and both his forum posts and his comments in the bitcoin source code used such Brit spellings as optimise and colour.

Source: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin

xluxeq commented 4 years ago

“The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth” (Daniel 7:23). “The waters ... are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues” (Revelation 17:15). “The Lord will bring a nation against you ... as swift as the eagle flies” (Deuteronomy 28:49). “Says the Lord of hosts: ... a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the farthest parts of the earth. And ... the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth” (Jeremiah 25:32, 33).